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Biologic Drugs Likely To Get Separate 12-Year Monopoly Protection Beyond
Patents
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| Robert McClelland alerts us to the unfortunate news that our elected
| officials have caved in to what the big pharma companies wanted and agreed to
| a new plan that would give a twelve-year monopoly on these sorts
| of "biosimilars." It's still not clear why this is needed at all, other than
| to wipe out competition and make drugs much more expensive. The two
| congressional reps who pushed this through were Representatives Anna Eshoo
| and Joe Barton. This is no surprise from Barton, but Eshoo, who represents
| part of Silicon Valley should know better than to be increasing monopoly
| protections.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090803/0214585747.shtml
Eshoo and Barton Team Up to Block Generic Biologic Medicines
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/eshoo-and-barton-team-up_b_248847.html
Biologic drugs protected 12 years by House panel bill
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12971462?source=rss&nclick_check=1
Recent:
Journal critique on Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant pattern
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| New Delhi: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundationâs pattern of funding in the
| form of grants for global health programmes and projects has been criticised
| in a research paper in The Lancet.
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| The paper, by David McCoy of the Centre for International Health and
| Development, London, and others, is accompanied by a commentary by Robert E.
| Black of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, U.S., and
| others, and an editorial. Dr. M.K. Bhan, Secretary, Department of
| Biotechnology, is a co-author of the commentary in his capacity as a
| scientist of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
|
| âAlthough it is driven by the belief that âall lives have equal value,â it
| seems that the Foundation does not believe that every voice has equal value,
| especially voices from those it seeks most to assist,â said the editorial.
| The commentary said very limited direct funding to low-income and
| middle-income countries is âarguably the most unfortunate imbalance in the
| research portfolio of the Foundation.â
|
| [...]
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| âGates Foundation is not a passive donor,â observes the paper.
|
| âThe Foundation actively engages in policy making and agenda setting
| activities; it has representatives that sit on the governing structures of
| many global health partnerships; it is part of a self-appointed group of
| global health leaders known as the H8 [that includes the WHO, UNICEF, GAVI
| and the World Bank]â and has been involved in setting the health agenda for
| the G8.â
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http://www.hindu.com/2009/05/10/stories/2009051055151000.htm
Related:
Dr. Rath rages against Bill Gates and the African Aids Conspiracy
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| Since it is public knowledge that the Gates Foundation has placed strategic
| investments into the pharmaceutical industry, it was only a question of time
| until the question would be answered whether Gates is serious about
| controlling diseases or whether he is just another spin doctor of the
| pharmaceutical âbusiness with diseaseâ who helps to expand and promote
| diseases under the deceptive veil of a âMother Theresaâ.
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http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/dr-rath-rages-against-bill-gates-and-the-african-aids-conspiracy/
What You Need to Know About the Fraudulent Nature of the Pharmaceutical
Investment Business With Disease
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| Some people may say that the pharmaceutical industry cannot be that bad.
| Unfortunately, it is. Fortunately, however, it is very easy for everyone to
| understand why this industry has such a detrimental effect on millions of
| human lives.
|
| It is not about individual drugs or individual companies. It is about the
| principles â the laws â of the pharmaceutical âbusiness with diseaseâ.
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http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/open_letters/pharma_laws_history.html
Gates Foundationâs Influence Criticized
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| The chief of malaria for the World Health Organization has complained that
| the growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates
| Foundation risks stifling a diversity of views among scientists and wiping
| out the world health agencyâs policy-making function.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/science/16malaria.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttq0IdULfjg
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVlnqnMHQ1c
Dark cloud over good works of Gates Found
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio
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| ...the Gates Foundation took down their public statement on this
| and replaced it with a significantly altered version which seems to
| say that investing responsibly would just be too complex for them
| and that they need to focus on their core mission: 'There are
| dozens of factors that could be considered, almost all of which
| are outside the foundation's areas of expertise. The issues
| involved are quite complex...
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/1756212&from=rss
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